FILE PHOTO: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and German Chancellor Angela Merkel address the media during a news conference in Berlin BERLIN (Reuters) - Life in the Communist-ruled German ...

An order prohibiting Jews from joining the Communist people’s police is the latest anti-Jewish move in the Soviet-held part of Germany where a drive has been going on to purge Jews from public offices ...

BERLINBERLIN — Germany’s parliament on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of a popular uprising in the Communist east that was brutally crushed by its Soviet-backed dictatorship. Worsening ...

Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany’s hard-left Die Linke party ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised eyebrows after comparing President Trump’s border wall plans to the Berlin Wall separating communist Germany from the free world. The New York Democrat made her ...

BERLIN -- Germany on Sunday celebrates the 25th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall fell, a pivotal moment in the collapse of communism and the start of the country's emergence as the major power ...

The Cold War border that once split Germany was a tightly guarded “death strip.” Against all odds, it turned into a thriving refuge — and may now hold lessons for European nations urgently seeking new ...

“Almost a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall,” Germany is entering a new era, said Mathias Döpfner in the Berlin Bild. For the first time, two former citizens of communist East Germany will ...

If the German Democratic Republic (GDR)—that is, East Germany—is known for anything, it's an irrepressible sense of fun. And yet, somehow, the country only produced a single arcade cabinet across its ...

BERLIN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Life in the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR) was simpler and sometimes could be "almost comfortable in a certain way", Chancellor Angela Merkel, who grew up ...

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